NOTE TO L. B. KAMENEV

Written:Written between July 5 (18) and 7 (20), 1917Published:First published in 1924 in the publishers’ preface to N. Lenin,The State and Revolution.The Marxist Theory of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution. Moscow, Krasnaya Nov Publishers.

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	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 36,

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ComradeKamenev

Entrenous: if they do me in, I ask you to publish my
notebook: “Marxism on the State ” (it got left behind in
Stockholm).[1]It’s bound in a blue cover. It contains a collection
of all the quotations from Marx and Engels, likewise from
Kautsky against Pannekoek. There are a number of remarks
and notes, and formulations. I think it could be published
after a week’s work. I believe it to be important, because
not only Plekhanov but also Kautsky have bungled things.
The condition: all this is absolutelyentre nous!

[1]Lenin’sworkMarxism on the Statewas written in Zurich in
January and February 1917 and contains all the principal
statements by Marx and Engels on the state and the dictatorship of the
proletariat, extracts from books and articles by Kautsky,
Pannekoek and Bernstein, with remarks, additions, generalisations and
conclusions by Lenin.

Whensetting out from Switzerland to Russia in April 1917,
Lenin left it along with other material for safekeeping abroad.

Afterthe events of July 1917, when Lenin was in hiding at
Razliv station, he asked that his notes be sent to him. He used
them to prepare his bookThe State and Revolution.